the latest news and the week said top stories gaza militants are celebrating what they call victory after israel stopped short of invading the strip eight days of bombing. rioters crowds in cairo face you get yet again as violent protests over the president's grab for power can continue for third straight day. e.u. leaders of feel to agree on their trillion euro budget after rounds of agonizing calls for the dozens of scheduled for next year. and citizens in spain the wealthiest region head to the polls for parliamentary election driven by a strong sentiment of separatism. you're

watching already a live shot from moscow this is the weekly with me to bomb once a gaza's recovering from the israeli bombing campaign that ended this week thanks to an egyptian brokered truce one hundred sixty eight palestinians were killed around half of them civilians militant rocket fly also claimed the lives of six israelis despite those numbers hamas claims it came out of the window and some israelis now say the government's failed them as are his policy or reports. alyssa and rachel are packing for the u.s. a cease fire might have been announced but they're not waiting around to see if it works the women were part of an internship program to see what it's like to live in israel so they came they saw and now they choosing to leave to spend very anxious living on the air like knowing that at any moment this sounds like laugh i may have

to go into a bomb shelter and like it's being scared of public transportation and staff. the streets of tel aviv are far cry from the streets of gaza when news of the truce was met with celebrations and fireworks the somewhat muted israeli reaction belies a growing disappointment in the way many here feel the government handled things but i do think that israel finished the operation just so and i think to finish it very soon i think we had a good momentum for this operation we have a very good start and i think that if we would have continued it could have achieved a more better result from it's i do think that we could have put some more pressure oh and the organization of hamas. would probably. keep us from further rocket attacks in the future i hope. the government has

good reason to finish it now many military experts and commentators believe the ceasefire was a strategic victory for hamas for two hours after officially came into force rocket fire from gaza continued it seems that the israeli government has given in to some of the demands of hamas and has made an agreement with a terror organization i think a lot of our lives have been crossed among the disappointed i viewed friedman a lone protester on television campus he's frustrated his army didn't into gaza and was one of the first to call his officer to volunteer it's important for our safety for our. so civilians safety and that's what we should do against it i'm prepared to die for my country any day any time. but tel aviv insists its operation was a success enabling it to destroy a significant portion of the masses infrastructure hundreds of rocket launchers and

dozens of smuggling tunnels by believe that the ceasefire in the day was just a means to an end and the end was peace and quiet however it came about is less important as the results and result hopefully will be peace and quiet a return to normalcy for israelis and also innocent palestinians on the other side of the border but hamas claims tel aviv capitulated to its demands especially by agreeing to ease its blockade on gaza the group also showed its military prowess by sending rockets for the first time from gaza to jerusalem and later to tel aviv capabilities that have made him us a real hero of the palestinian resistance the conflict also managed to silence the more moderate palestinian government of mahmoud abbas which is why some are pointing out that israel has sent a very dangerous message to the arab world if you want to get something from israel you have to go to war policy r.t. tel aviv. international human rights watch dogs are now investigating the conflict of for war crimes militant rockets targeted israeli cities killing several

civilians while televisa been blasted by some observers for causing a massive collateral damage filmmaker hara fear was inside gaza throughout the bombing. gasser israel's military operation pillar of cloud has officially ended it started with the assassination of a senior hamas commander barry barrett here. more than one thousand two hundred palestinians were wounded overwhelmingly children and women and over one hundred sixty seven were killed half of them civilians including journalists israel says when it targeted the top and eleventh floor of this. building and it was targeting hamas as operational communications and injured six when it struck the al kurds t.v. office just below here. at exactly one fifty three on sunday the occupying forces started bombing our office the satellite channel located on the eleventh floor in

the western side of the building and three rockets hit us my colleagues and i were wounded one of the striking things about the eight day war was the number of journalists that were explicitly targeted by israeli forces three appear to have been deliberately assassinated. on monday israel called major local news agencies ordering them to evacuate their premises it then targeted a computer center belonging to the t.v. channel based in the building in gaza city setting it to blaze killing two and injuring several star this is what's left of the second floor of the building in central gaza city reporters without borders says that this building is known in gaza as the reporters building the targeting of any journalist or civilian and international law is a war crime and war reporting is explicitly protected under international

humanitarian law the next day israel targeted a press car carrying two al aksa t.v. cameramen they burned to death when i got in yesterday near our home a car with a press logo drove past with two young men inside all of a sudden we saw a rocket hit the car those inside were killed we pulled one of them out in pieces but couldn't get to the other one he was literally on fire of course it was the press what else can you say. and al could of the most popular t.v. stations in palestine israel says they're not legitimate journalistic enterprises and that they're associated with the islamic jihad group and the quote hamas terror organization. only had a camera was the press was the european press with the tarka democracy these crimes are being committed against women and children all of this democracy is a sham. israeli airstrikes targeted media offices those targeted

journalists according to israeli spokes persons are neither press nor civilians at all therefore journalist are worried that the atrocities massacres perpetrated by the enemy in gaza will be concealed. israel's. bombardment campaign was aimed at wiping out a massive infrastructure personnel and capacity garson reporters so that they will never be deterred from reporting their side of the story. filmmaker and activist harry fear their reporting from post conflict gaza now israeli officials said they regretted the collateral damage in gaza while standing by their claims that the militants are responsible for civilian casualties. we see the risk from gaza hamas terrorists they target only civilians and this see a victory when they hurt innocent people for twelve years or hamas terrorists for

rockets in our civilians only when no civilians for the this time really government decided that we have to stop these attacks in our civilians and our children and our elders and that's why we target but unfortunately we know we see if we do and every one of the terrorists high behind civilians it's definitely big numbers and we do so please if you seem very must stop so we call upon all the international community and we call upon everybody who really doesn't want this violence first of all to pressure on terrorist organizations to stop this violence and to call upon them not to use civilians we just want safety for us. to egypt now on the third consecutive day of clashes police in cairo have fired tear gas at crowds protesting against the president's decree granting him sweeping

new powers his decisions can that now no longer be challenged by any authority more than twenty gyptian rights groups have him to renounce the dissident the opposition has vowed to fight what it calls a dictator like power grab till the very end and staging a sit in at cairo's tahrir square president morsi though has defended the move saying it's intended to protect the revolution that paved the his way to power after the ousting of hosni mubarak's regime for more now an analysis on the situation in egypt we're now joined live by admiral are the middle east analyst at the university of sydney more protests have been announced of all the coming days and violence is if not dined out on what could potentially bring an end to this crisis. you know what section during the course you're going to smile and. of course it would be what he would have to say is not in order to do

that but you know i don't have a moment really it's anyone's guess because there were the situation in egypt when i'm actually speaking what's administrative is not it's the core eyes and it's very minute of politics and now we know. there was a build up to this tension and you know with the gaza people what it's like i'm. not imagining that approaches to the gaza most of the parts. of the bees are made on the on the bus and i'm sure to come to these most of my own pocket going to morsi and his or not. how influential are the judges who have called for nationwide walkouts i mean do you think they had announced made could a factor even change most ace decision. you know one. possibility but i don't think you're just because of that you know you've got. minister has resigned today and then you've got the stock markets are going to go

to the street. is trying to fight on taxes. and also the job just. is not you want it's voicing their opposition or shall i say they're forcing opposition but you've got another job just for egypt which are supporting morsi and some suspect computer science. i'm also. on. and also i'm one of you know i'll say is that it's a dream to district council has and then. by more city and then that matters a lot of talk about genes i mean for the president to make this controversial said this is a high risk stuff why do you think he decided to go for it. egypt has been in the long time especially because of the constitutional. process. between islamists and. nothing's going and especially on the run we were.

also on the fact that he broke the. cease fire has given him an overall international legitimacy and also. so from now on him to continue. to. be sure and. also rob. just want to make any. progress now given the situation has happened. it's a terrible situation. i mean in this battle between the supporters of the muslim brotherhood and the liberal opposition which is the some consider the strongest side at this point. ok the muslim brotherhood of mobilization. and the fact that they're. going to continue to this trend is not mine. so in other words her and alexander which borders of running. a secular candidate.

and she controls the. streets. don't have to come to a compromise with. vincent. and also it's also become very confusing since and now when you say. i want you to. come. on ledges and. confusing and so. it's really hard it's going on a time a big confusing mess no way to go will be watching closely at this story thank you very much amorally middle east analyst at the university of sydney. buy this read european union leaders failed to to reach

a deal of the days of negotiating the blocks financial future in brussels will see members supported an increase in the budget while some including britain called for cuts claiming that in a time of austerity nations don't have money to spend r t sara for its reports. with the european commission in london but in a week that seeing the brussels budget debate also met lee ending in failure is once again britain's place within europe is back in the spotlight the european leaders all similarly failing to come up with a deal that would please everyone in the budget that would take us from twenty forty to twenty twenty that person very much wanted to be seen as leading the way in calling for the cuts indeed in the lead up to the negotiations there was a lot of concern that we'd see burson isolated from the other twenty six countries whose angela merkel who was the mediator these negotiations he stepped up to take

person side an unlikely form of support perhaps she was very much adamant that person wouldn't be left to fight this alone an exercise that as we saw happening in two thousand and eleven and so we saw those other dana countries getting behind britain in this now at the end of it the prime minister said the person didn't get a deal but they didn't get an unacceptable deal but of course that leads us back exactly where we started with nothing happening and so those countries are going to be left to continually the negotiations to try and hammer out some form of a deal that's acceptable to everyone but ultimately we're going to see this budget battle continuing now into the new year. still to come this hour the wind separatism looks spain's got the man to hold it to choose a new parliament with talk of independence dominating. the u.n. says it will send experts to both rain to see how the state can improve its worst

think human rights record as a leading opposition party vows to continue protests despite a government ban that's in plain to most stories in just a few minutes. texas wants to pull away from the usa in fact at least twenty states have started petitions for independence after obama won the election with well just a few voting irregularities but guess what suspicion will never happen it is a very easy thing to do to sign a petition and it is another thing entirely to leave us a little civil war thing that happened back then does anyone the usa honestly think that they are a governor has the ball determination to actual rebel i don't think there's a single george washington type among them well maybe just see for tour

a kind of but he's out of office how do what makes it seem like revolution or succession is this fun cool easy thing to do with cool slogans and texan flags flying but the reality looks a lot more like the arab spring before you put your name on the dotted line as a seed you should really understand what that means and what you're in for the founding father sure did but that's just my opinion.

mission. critical free. free. free. free. free. the old free blog video for your media project free media r t v dot com. they're watching r t a live from moscow the growing threat to european unity is the talk of separatism activity growing in some areas issues of independence and seventy odd dominating local elections and got them to india spain's riches region and the main contributor to the country's economy r.t.s. and reform is in bus the lawn. well people are voting today in an election which

could represent a step towards any final breakup of spain and it is because the cattle i am president matters promise to hold a referendum on independence from spain it is convergence and union party actually wins and that is something that is striking a chord with many cattle lands the region itself a rich pretty wealthy it has an economy the size of portugal's but it pays far more in taxes to the spanish government it actually receives back in terms of investment from from madrid and that is something that annoys some people here unemployment is at around twenty five percent and also people are having to endure tough austerity measures at the moment but nothing is a done deal because after mass does need to record an absolute majority in order to be able to push through this referendum otherwise he would be forced to form some sort of coalition there is a sticking point to him that the referendum is actually against the spanish constitution in the spanish prime minister. has said he will fight it with some

elements of the spanish media are actually saying that after mass could find himself arrested so nothing is clear cut at the moment and even though opinion polls do suggest that the majority of people are in favor of independence there is a strong lobby who are against separatism and their arguments are based on the economy too they say that if catalonia is forced withdraw from spain it would businesses here would lose the spanish market but they could also lose the european union market because catalonia they fear could be forced to drop out of the e.u. and then reapply for membership which could be a long and lengthy process of the rim many arguments good arguments for and against these are issues that catalans of how to mull over over the last few weeks but today they do have to make their minds up and we should get a result later this evening. and i'm also closely following that got the money in elections on our website and i would see the latest details and before highlight of the regions protest movement point then. also available for you online.

syrian rebels looking to overthrow president assad have received syria's backing this week the european union welcome the new syrian opposition group the national coalition as a legitimate representative of the country's people although e.u. ministers are stopped short of official diplomatic recognition which must be decided by each member state france and turkey with the first powers to give the new rebel alliance a stamp of approval with britain following suit soon after turkey is now pushing for nato to deploy patriot missiles along its border with syria to defend itself russia and iran are among the countries strongly opposing the roof see it as a possible first step towards a no fly zone and possibly for him to meet on the ground political activists dr years and of the last things if nato granted turkey's request it would plunge the region deep into chaos. point such mess is not really going to

be for defensive measure what do they need to defend against turkey has an army and they can defend against more time for example this is clearly for a larger scale intervention where they want to secure a no fly zone area and we've been hearing countries especially britain and france advocating such intervention recently where they've been talking about limited intervention however how. comprehensive and how normal out war style this is going to be i think it is not going to not going to be a war style it will be a war of attrition it's not going to threaten the syrian government of a sudden intervention they know very well that this is going to. a response from the syrian side that made. a lot of chaos and the regime. the

u.n. human rights commission plans to send a team of experts to but next week amid a growing concerns the nation is slipping into protests chaos the main opposition party this says it will resume probing form demonstrations despite a government ban on all gatherings uprising has been going on for almost two years with activists calling for more freedoms access to jobs and education from this we need leaders up to eighty people have been killed and thousands of thrown behind bars during the government crackdown on dissent and wednesday court sentenced twenty three medics to three months in prison for treating injured protesters and taking part in really bad comes after every thought by leading human rights group amnesty international which will include torture and oppression on the lives. of. the situation as much or stunning worst month for you terry writes in we're talking

about. at least twenty four people being killed after the bombing the panic commission of inquiry issued its report last year a ban on not protest at the un to fucked over and only a week ago there were a vocation of national talk thirty one opposition activists were also talking about continuous harassment or human rights and one of them is now the president of the famed center for human rights that was sentenced the summer to three years increase in maryland for having exercised its right to freedom of expression and we consider him to be a prisoner of conscience and we are talking about hundreds or hundreds and hundreds of allegations of torture that that happened especially since the beginning of two thousand and eleven until now the international community has not enough pressure on the bahamian government to ensure that. any independent commission of inquiry recommendations are implemented it well into squad who are in on what we are seeing is that you are on to her. report was issued we have seen that that main commendation is that would ensure a country we can to justice for victims have not been implemented. for millions in

the u.k. the cold winter may be more biting than ever soaring energy prices he said to drive people into what's been hailed as feel poverty where the only way to stay warm is an extra blanket is all it is laura smith with the story. it's a bitter winter's day in london and inside this plot it's not much warmer single mother of four julie has only one thing on her mind as the cold bites how is she going to pay her ever rising energy bill i decided to take few libel from the ceiling and i only use one in my room it's only sitting in my kitchen and my you just one light trying to cut down. off the bill next time but in regard to bill. we spoke to julie last winter when she was already struggling and we've come back to see how she'll face this year's even bigger challenge five of the six big energy

companies have announced price rises of around ten percent according to use which whose business it is to help people reduce their bills it will drive more into an increasingly common form of poverty poverty is where you spend more than ten percent of your net income on your energy bills and we've seen these recent price increases pushed three hundred fourteen founts and people into fuel poverty that's on top of an estimated seven million people already one survey ahead of this winter found energy prices were the biggest concern for consumers ninety percent said the cost of energy was their main household worry ahead of rising costs for food petrol and mortgage payment julie shows me her energy bills carefully conserve to chart

the inexorable rise since she moved in in two thousand and seven she's afraid that this winter her children's health will suffer again in a way that when accomplice or his blanket his socks and the children just put it on the moon we will call two thousand and ten and two thousand and eleven there were six. trying to be mean not the. while julie's children are getting sick the energy companies are profiting british gas whose prices are up six percent is on track to make one point four billion pounds in profits this year and e.t.f. with the highest price rise of ten point eight percent announced profits of one point six billion in february where are you going to find the extra ten percent that's going to go in your bill from them but what i don't know laura smith altie london the second part of our special report on the trials and tribulations of women in afghanistan is coming up after

a short break. looking at some talks you simply do not believe they come speak and goodness how they can wrong oh. it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as a strength in canada and the us i come to russia and everybody is so very friendly they welcomed me with open arms and the scenery is so beautiful it's very much like alaska and so i felt at home the first sled dog was brought here from australia now astray and come to this remote russian village to take part in the race it's not surprising they love it this trail are amazing but even more amazing is the story of how racing first started here atoll.